Earlier this week, a British Airways A320 operating a flight between London and Oslo suffered smoke in the cockpit.
Information has been released regarding this incident.
Below is what we know so far about this…
British Airways BA764 – London to Oslo…
British Airways flight BA764 is a routine scheduled flight between London Heathrow and Oslo Gardermoen.
The aircraft involved in the incident is registered as G-EUYK.
As per data from Planespotters.net, G-EUYK is a 13.4 year old Airbus A320 that was delivered to the airline in January 2011.
Furthermore, of the A320ceo variant, British Airways has 65 in the fleet.
Of that 65, all but three are in active service, offering an average fleet age of 17.7 years.
British Airways flight BA764 departed London Heathrow at 1745 local time and initially climbed out to Oslo.
Over the North Sea, the aircraft made a deviation south, and proceeded to divert to Amsterdam Schiphol.
It is understood that the aircraft landed safely without further incident following this deviation.
As per The Aviation Herald, the crew onboard reported smoke in the cockpit.
Upon landing, the aircraft was met by emergency services, who couldn’t detect any evidence of a fire.
Grounded For Two Days…
Following this diversion on British Airways flight BA764 London-Oslo, G-EUYK was grounded for two days.
Data from RadarBox shows that the aircraft made a repositioning flight back to Heathrow yesterday (May 17).
From there, the aircraft has not conducted another commercial flight at the time of writing (18/5/24 @ 1145 UK time).
All eyes will be on how long it will take to fix the issue so then the aircraft can re-enter service.
This will be overly dependent on the extent of the damage that needs to be fixed following this smoke in the cockpit.
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